Rangeley Lakes.

VOL. I. RANGELEY, MAINE, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895. NO. 1.

Agent Miller what it was. He said it was press had not yet received its tapes, it park and health resort, and every acre of HOW WE STARTED. billed a printing press. had x’emained unblanketed through the land will be greatly enhanced in value, “ Guess someone’s going to start a news­ cold days and the temperature of any part and every acre profitably employed, with paper, ” said the crowd. of it ran close down to nothing. It was, the natural consequence to our people that “ Wonder who it is?” came next. evening and a couple of Rochesters were accrues to any people living in sections Some of the Humor of “ What’s the tag say?” doing duty in place of a stove—they con­ where land is properly utilized. “ Can’t make anything out of it,” was quered—so did we, but not till quite a A point in cconnection with the promo­ Getting the Rangeley the reply. “ It’s a B with a couple of quantity of midnight oil had gone up in tion of our summer resort industries can­ marks around it,” for the press came from flame. Everything was accomplished till not be too strongly emphasized. That is Lakes on Its Feet. the factory in a way to tell no tales. it came to the adjustment of the fly, and the utilization about home, in various The feline then emerged from its conceal­ then things flew. A sheet of paper would avenues, of the large sums of money, sav­ ment (as they would say in Boston). pass through the regular course of a sheet ings of the people, now invested abroad. Pei'haps you think a newspaper office is The carefully guarded secret became an being printed, would pass out from the Millions of capital earned in New England something which you can go out of an open one and by Monday night every citi­ tape rollers over the fly and then with a have been invested beyond the state lines afternoon and select, leave your address zen in town had heard the news. jump the fly would fly and catch the paper for want of opportunities for its profitable and find it all delivered and ready for bus­ It spread like election returns: but, un­ when about half way through and the employment at home. This money has iness the next morning. like the latter, was pleasing to all. As a paper would fly in pieces. Another adjust­ been withdrawn from trade circulation, If such be your idea and you have the matter of fact, there may be persons in ment and the fly would deliver a whack at and even when safely invested its use in means and inclination, go forth and see Rangeley who are sorry that a paper is the sheet and deliver it the wrong way. that direction has been damaging to busi­ how long your ideas will stand the test. being started; but, if such there be, they More adjustment. Then our fly would ness and hurtful to real estate values. I haven’t the figures at hand, but it’s my have not been heard from either directly beat the average base ballist, strike every­ As the summer resort business is ex­ private opinion that a printing office is or indirectly. thing sent to it, make a home run and panded, incidental to it must come en­ composed of 899,633 separate pieces and When the foreman and the substitute beat the devil (or the substitute devil), if larged trade, building, and additional that each one comes by itself. I further devil struck town Monday night the big he wasn’t quick enough to get out of the industries of various kinds into which believe that each piece is endowed with a press was piled high in the press room. way. money can be safely placed, and through faculty of never being exactly where it is There were six boxes of it and each one The heavy looker on, who has not fig­ whose channels it will travel into our wanted at a given time. If you have weighed from 100 to 8,000 pounds. ured extensively in this narrative thus far, stores, banks, insurance companies, and adjusted No. 2689 and reach out for No. The foreman said we wanted the side now made a suggestion that the cam be all other industries. A thousand dollars 2690 you will discover that it’s at the very frames first. Naturally they were the last moved just a bit. It was done in an in­ so employed—kept in active business cir­ farthest end of the office. If you want No. in the pile and the intervening boxes stant and a somewhat battered sheet sent culation at home—is worth to a commu­ 3976 you will readily find Nos. 3973, 3977, weighed in the neighborhood of 4,000 the rounds. It completed its journey nity a great many thousand sent out West but it will take 15 minutes' search to lo­ pounds. Therefore it became necessary to through the press, ran out on the tapes, to develop some other locality and cate the one that comes between. After open everything as we went along and so gently dropped on the fly and “ there she strengthen the political power of a region an office is made shipshape there is a place work our way through to what we needed goes” was shouted as at just the right tainted with financial heresies inseparable for everything and everything is in its first. moment the much abused fly did its work from people where the debtor class largely place—but in the interim!—-there is- place All this time no book of directions had to perfection, the sheet being dropped in predominates. for nothing and nothing is constantly in showed up. The missing pamphlet finally place on the table. came to light in the last box of all. Our its place. It was midnight! But the deed was That Guides’ Association. To an outsider with a leaning toward joy was short-lived though, for when we done. The ghost walked, so did we. Charles Harnden, a well known guide, is the humorous, there is infinite amusement came to follow the book’s directions we It was the original intention to issue somewhat interested in forming an Associ­ in all this. To the fellows who are doing found that the press was of a later model the first number May 23d; but as the time ation of Guides throughout the Rangeley the work there is infinite nerve-wearing than the one therein described, hence the drew near, it looked less and less like it Lakes region, the object to be mutual pro­ tension. During the ordeal I occupied a two failed to connect. Without specific and finally became an impossibility. If tection. position about half way between the two. directions we were forced to fall back on we had attempted to get the first number He has the constitution of the “ Adiron­ in fact 1 was “ substitute devil.” common sense and a general knowledge of out Friday or Saturday it would have de­ dack Guides’ Association,” also copies of “ Substitute devil” is a new post. printing machinery, but the latter stood layed the next week’s issue, for it is very circulars, blanks and a “ Member’s Annual It was created for me in the same man­ us in good stead and in ten hours’ work hard work to make up time on a 12-page Certificate,” a card certified by the Presi­ the press was practically up. ner that our Uncle Samuel cares for the paper requiring four impressions for each dent of the Association that “ the bearer Faithful alter alf the regular plums have During this time visitors were numerous. one. is a reliable guide.” been snapped up. Among them came two small youths. One The preamble of the above Association is A Good Thittg. Push ?t Along. Before we finally reached our present of them looked tiro press all over. Then like this: “ The increase of railroads and quarters it looked as though the R a n g e - he said; “ Hi!. Tommy, see George Esty’s [SEW ENGLAND t o u r ist.] the rush of travel into the Adirondacks l e y L a k e s would have to be written in new thrashing machine.” In the contemplation of the future of have brought among us unknown persons one place, set up in another, made up in After the press was put in running order New England, and the regulation of its who offer themselves as guides. Such still another, printed in a fourth place many people came in to see the wheels go public policy, the summer resort industry persons may, or not, be competent. This and mailed at a fifth. One man offered us round and it fell to the lot of the substi­ must play a most important part, because Association proposes a registration of all the use of his field. Another kind-hearted tute devil to show them through the es­ it offers a certain field in which we can competent and equipped guides, who will citizen volunteered to keep the teams tablishment. So many came that the Sub­ build a permanent structure of industrial hold cards of membership, issued by offi­ away if we preempted a section of the stitute grew slightly demented and at one strength, promising a general recovery of cers of the Association, after such persons street. One of the staff suggested that we time the foreman heard him muttering to land values, now depressed through the have been passed upon by a local commit­ leave the press in the car and issue on the himself in the corner. He slipped up un­ exhaustive draft upon us, both of popula­ tee of guides of established reputation. tail. A canvass tent, a house,—boat on observed and caught an incoherent jumble tion and finance, by the speculative induce­ The following extract from the constitu­ ohe lake and a log cabin in the woods, were of words something like this: “ Weighs- ments and substantial growth of other tion relates to membership: “ Any person all spoken of, but after awhile luck fell in 6000-pounds-uo-doesn’ t-r un-very-liard-you- sections where New England capital has to become a member of this Association with us and the firm of Toothaker A Esty see-the-paper-is-fed-in—lnAe - it-goes-round- been enlisted. Land profitably employed must be (1) a citizen of the United States gave way to the R a n g e l e y L a k e s Pub­ cylinder-ink-is-put-in-here-goes-over-table- is the true basis of indestructible wealth. and have a permanent residence in New lishing Company. and-is-brayed-by-these-rollers—those-two— No political economist will dispute this, York, (2) be at least twenty-one years of That ended the anxiety. All that came big-ones-ai'e-w hat-ink-the-form—then-the— and yet here in New England, the oldest age and have been known as a resident of afterward had its humorous side, even if paper-comes-out-here-foreman-and-I-put-it section of the United States, we find large the Adirondacks for fifteen years, (3] an il was provoking at the time. up-in-twelve-houre-no-it’s-no-bothei'-at-all tracts of land absolutely unemployed, and Adirondack guide having at ’ least three The big Campbell press came first. comc-in-and-see-the-thing-af tor-we-get-to- computed as valuable only for the timber years experience as such, (4) be a well It was unheralded. running.” growing on them, while other tracts of equipped, competent, and m every way. No one—save half a dozen sworn to se­ There veas a strange wild look in the Sub­ once cultivated land are held of small val­ reliable guide. ’ ’ crecy—knew that a paper was to be started stitute’s eye, but a dash of cold water ue, because they cannot now be cultivated It is also a sort of a Mutual Insurance in Rangeley. brought him to himself once more. and made to yield products that may be Society, paying a certain sum in case of Therefore the fact that (>000 pounds of “ What was I saying?” he asked. transported to market and sold in compe- the death of a member. machinery were lying in a oox car at the “ Guess you were telling someone about tetion with the products from the great One object is to establish and maintain station created some little comment. that big press.” agricultural fields of the West. Agricul­ a uniform rate of wages and to discoun­ One man looked it over and said if was Well, I don’ t wonder, I’ve gone through turally our lands arc, under the present tenance all cutting of rates. a hay press. that l’igmarole so much that I don’ t seem order of things, relatively of little value; It would seem to be a very good idea, Number two said no, it was a planing to know anything else. You show the but there is a use for them that will re­ but R a n g e l e y L a k e s does not propose to next visitor through, wont you?” st ore the value of those adapted to agri­ establish laws for the guides. It will, The next said it was a stone crusher And the foi’cman said he would. cultural purposes, and give a still greater however, publish articles and open its col­ and that Mr. Dickson was going to have It was mighty close to the date of pub­ value to those that cannot be so employed. umns for full and free discussion of their macadam roadways at Maneskootook. lication, and nervous prostratioxi was Build up this section through every merits when they relate to improvements About this timer so me one asked Station getting a good hold of the proprietor's, the means in our power into a great pleasure of the Rangeley Lakes section. 2 RANGELEY LAKES

by Post Commander F. B. Sweetser, are PHILLIPS LOCALS. Prank H. Whitney, wife and three daugh­ as follows:— ters, are in town for a few days, visiting- H e vdqCauteks, James E. Cush- •max P ost Hinkley & Cragin have again put.in relatives. Mr. Whitney is a member of G . A * R . P hillips. M a in e , M ay 13, 1895. the police force of Lowell, and this is ha- electric lights. G e n e k a l On d e l s. first visit to his native town for nine Sherman Whitney is going on the r;>ad Memorial Day will be observed as fol­ years. He is much interested in old coins, lows: A t 9 o’clock, A. M., the comrades for a Portland firm. will assemble at headquarters in full G. has a very fine collection and takes much A. R. uniform, including memorial badges. Daniel C. Leavitt is again on the street pleasure in gi ving you a talk on his favor­ Column will be formed at 10. A. M. in after his recent illness. ite hobby.. The Observance of Me™ the following order:— Miss Cora Wheeler lias been in Farm­ New Vineyard Cornet Band. Everdene Shepard had a narrow escape Post Members. ington for a few days. from serious injury Saturday night. She Ex-Soldiers. morial Day, §896 Relief Corps. George B. Dennison has been making was on her bicycle and in trying to avoid Sons of Veterans. extensive repairs on hi.- house running into a cotv, lost sight of Foss Schools. Citizens. M. S. Kelley put the paint and varnish Worthley’s approach in a team. The The column will march to the new cem- on the fancy train of the P.& R. team and bicycle collided. throwing the etary where the exercises in memory of child to one side and badly smashing the our honored dead will be held. The exer­ Children’s Sunday will be observed at bike. Mr. Worthley deserves credit for Order of Exercises for cises will be as follows:— Union Church, June 9th, by a concert. Prayer. the cool headed manner in which he con­ 'Singing...... Choir. “ Daniel” has been sold to Rangeley trolled his horse. Remarks...... parties. He will bray no more for us. Decorating graves with wreaths and boquets. The railroad boys’ ball at Bates Hall, Cushman Post, Hon. Joel Wilbur, wife and daughter, At the close, the column will be formed Phillips, Thursday evening was attended again and march to the old cemetery whei’e are at Camp Cliateauguay for ten days. the usual exercises will be conducted by by about twenty-five couples and everyone the Post. At the close, the column will Archie McKeen has so improved of late had an enjoyable time. There were six­ repair to the G. A. R. hall where dinner that he is contemplating a visit to Range- teen dances on the order. The music was will be served at twelve o ’clock. At two ley. Settia’ the Flags. o’clock p. m. the column will be formed by Nadeau’s orchestra of Kingficld, and This ain't Joe Brown: Is It? Why. Joe: again and march to the Union church Miss Bertha Leman, of Brockville, Can­ the prompter’s work won many compli­ Y ou’re bent, ’nd gray ’nd go so slow where the following exercises will be ada, is visiting Mrs. Harry P. Dill, for a ments. Next year the railroad ball will held;— be one of the events to be looked forward I thought’twas some old man. But here— Prayer,...... Post Chaplain Prescott. few weeks. Furgot I’d been away ten year! Reading o f Memorial Order,...... Apple trees are blossoming very shy this to. This year’s dance was only a starter. I had to come, Joe. Had to come Mnsic...... Band. Reading. Roll of Honor...... spring, though now and then one is seen Fur one more Thirtieth o ’ May, George S. Wing is making very extensive Music,...... Choir. in full bloom. To see the boys, ’nd help ’em some P o e m ...... preparations to supply this and surround­ In keepin’ Decoration Day Music...... Band. Ben. Whittemore would not accept the ing sections with early vegetables. He Address,...... Maj. H. S. Melcher. Music...... Choir. selectmen’s offer of the position of Road has in his hot house 1000 tomato plants. B enediction...... Commissioner. 150 hills of cucumbers, 50 hills of squash. But whar ye bound for this time, Joe? F. B. Sweetser,The Baptist P.C. parish had a house cleaning 3000 celery plants. Among the varieties To set the flags? W e ’ll both on’s go Joseph Ellis, Adjt. prior to the coming of the new pastor, already set out are 60,000 onions, 1000 cab­ ’Nd mark the end o’ the march that’s done, bages and he has planted and sown the ’Nd call the roll o’ the boys that’s gone. Cushman Post No. 87 organizid Novem­ Rev. Mr. Fultz. following: One half acre onions and two Say, Joe, yot’n me have come so near ber 12, 1884. The following have been com­ M. W. Harden has decided that Sunday barrels of potato onions, one acre of beets The still place where manders in the order given: Wm. H. >tc- was made for a day of rest, and has de­ and turnips, one and a quarter acres of They’re camped, that we can alost hear Keen, S. D. McKeuney, E. B. Hanscom, cided to close his barber shop on that day. ’Em answer their names from over there. corn, one acre of potatoes, one acre of Cyrus Hall. N. W. Hinkley, F. B. Sweet- In the P. & R. shops, engine No. 3 is peas, four acres of oats, one and one half sir, J. H. Eliis, F. B. Sweetsir. The pres­ jacked up for repairs. Master Mechanic acres of squash and one acre of other veg­ Ther’s jest ten graves. I r’member ’em all— Boston is busy on work in the machine etables. Ten men that’s answered detail call. shop. Five flags fur me, ’nd five fur you. Supt. Beal, of the Sandy River R. K.. W hat’s all the rest fur? Ten’ll do. Mrs. Ralph King, of Denver, Col., is vis­ has closed contracts with the owners of ’Nd whar’s the rest o ’ the boys to-day? iting the parents of her late husband, Mr. the Lisbon Falls Fibre Co., to haul 5000 Ther’ should be twelve on’s, countin’ you. and Mrs. A. S. King. Her daughter is cords of spruce pulp wood. 500 cords are I hope they ain't took to stayin’ away: with her. to be loaded at Saunder’s Mill, 500 at That ain’t the way they useter do: Tent caterpillars are very numerous Reed’s Mill on the P. eb R., 2000 cords at ’ Taint right: They all had orter com e along the roadside this year. It behooves Phillips and 2000 at Salem. This means To mark the graves for ’Morial Day. over 1500 car loads and will be about the N o matter 'f work is pushin’ some! all apple growers to exterminate every colony they see. sam e amount, in ca rs, that the Red in gton State Deputy, George L. Lakin, of West Lum her Co. sends out each year. Mr. Why, Joe! You're cryin’! What ails ye, Joe? Phillips, instituted an order of the Golden Bea says there is a possibility that a con- What's that? Good Lord: That can't be so! Cross at Stratton, May 9th. There were tract will be closed with anothor Pulp Co. All dead but us? Why, Joe—but thar, twenty-two charter members present. to c very 10,000 cord s of poplar 10.0 ot of That couldn't be, outside o’ war. this would go from Jerusalem. For a second time Phillips has been hon­ A party of eleven Phillips cj'dors rande ored by the Masonic-Grand Lodge in ap­ the run to Strong Saturday morning com­ Did fall in battle? Yes—Y ou’re right. pointing a citizen a District Deputy Grand ing back by train. The party consisted W e ’ve all been in a long, hard fight. Master. Newell P. Noble is the appointee. They fell in battle. Yes, that’s so! of: Messrs . W. W. lianriby. W l Austin ’Nd that’s the way we’ve got to go. Friends of Rev. Arthur Golder of Eliot, F. IT. Wi bur. A. M. G-YC-UWOC'd. F. N. An’. Joe, I ’ll bet Me., well-known in Northern Franklin, Beal, H. H. Field and Mr:5. J.'W. Bi■ticket t Not one o’ them boys ever let will be grieved to learn of the death of his Mrs. E. H Shepar 1, Mr. [' Green- The colors outen ’is sight! ent officers are: Com., F. B. Sweetsir; S. only child after an illness -of but a few wood, Mr.j. Eva Bi•adbur y and 1IGs Lera V.. H. A. Dunham; J. V. Allison Parker; Q. weeks. Wight. 3 heir frit- ?ids gatre them a •eguiar M., E. B. Hanscom; Surgeon, Dearborn Fourth c f July atmd-off when they left Well. Joe. W e’ve got these flags to set. Nickerson; O. D., d'onathan Cushman; O. The many friends of Mrs. Angie M. Phillips attd the ru i dowi was v ?r\ plea s- Here’s ten fur me ’nd ten you keep, G-. W. S. Russell; Chap.. Horace Prescott, Houghton, formerly Miss Leavitt* now of Ther’s tw o o f us is wakin’ yet Lindsay, Ontario, will feel sad to learn of ant. Whc n near in v Stvo ig one of the la- To stan’ guard over them that sleep! S. m .. Lewis Prescott; Q.-m. S..Wm. True. dies had t ic misfoi tune t<>catch her dress No member of the Post has died during the death of her .daughter Lizzie, after a But1 which of us two, Joe. d’ye s’porse . brief illness. in the chain of the wheel vnd bre vk one of Will set the flag fur the next that goes? the past year. the chain inks; but just at tb< n omen t G. L. Lakin, Esq., is very pleasantly lo­ -James C. Purdy in Kate Field's Washington. of the accident a g

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the man Who complains [Transcribed from the RANGELEY LAKE Of this spring’s fishing HOUSE Register.] Should be quietly put out of his misery. The complainant has been a vara avis up to this time. W ednesday, May 22 The Rangeley Lakes’ Press. W. A. Dickinson, Lowell, Mass. Mrs. C. W. Barrett is on the sick list. H. P. Beedy and J. F. Toothaker, of A. J, Lynch, DO. F. B. Norris, Auburn. Phillips, were in town Tuesday. Fred W. Sanborn. Guide. Abram Ross has sold one of his best W . C. Mayo, Lewiston. cows to Horace Loomis, for $40. R. J. Hodgdon, Do. Mr. Frederick Skinner's best catch for F. Dodge, Do. E. T. Hatch, Portland. the spring, was a five-pounder, taken on C. E. Beedy, Lew iston. Lake Oquossoc. C. H. Mitchell, Portland. “ Camp Maine Central,” the hit of the Horace Atwood, Hampden. New York convention, is to be set up in Chas. S. Marsh, Boston. Central Park, New York. Wm. P. Whitehouse. Augusta. Mrs. Whitehouse, Do. Mr. D. F. Field and Miss Clare Hinkley Robert T. Whitehouse. Portland. of Phillips have been the guests of the No­ Chas. Staples, Jr., Do. bles at “ Anglewood,” this week. D. W . Davis, Phillips Miss Anna L. Robert, of Farmington, is M. B. Pottle, Kingfleld. expected to arrive in town next Saturday. May 23. She will set type for R a n g e l e y L a k e s . B. E. Grant, Boston. Henry Fuller and Ansel Soule went up W . H. Young, Do. H. A. Priest, Do. to Saddleback Ponds the first of the-week. W . F. Chapman.- Do. “ Never had better fishing,"is their report. H. T. Rockwell, Do. Mrs. Lyman Hun toon, who has been E. B. Haskell, Do. seriously ill of gastric trouble, is reported C. H. Andrews, Do. better. She is attended by Dr. E. B. Cur­ W . R. W hittemore. Cambridge, Mass. rier. F. W. Whittemore. Do. James Stewart, S. Weymouth, Mass. The bicycle fisherman is more or less in H. B. Reed, Do. evidence. With rods across his handle A picture of the big drum cylinder Campbell press which May 24. bars and ba.sket over his shoulder, he J. D. Colbert, Hopkinton, Mass. glides •along very easily. A. H. Lyman, B oston. John C. Lowny. Philadelphia. One of our compositors says there is so prints four pages of the R a n g e l e y L a k e s at one impression. May 25. much “ fish” in R a n g e l e y L a k e s that Ed. Page, Bangor. the edition will have to be packed in birch It weighs 6,000 lbs., but runs so smoothly that a child can make E. B. Stoddard'. W orcester, Mass. bark and moss and laid on ice. T. S. Johnson. Do. H. M. W itter, Do. If some of the items seem rather ancient, the wheels go round. please excuse us, on the plea, that we made C. B. McKinney. Camp Caribou. August,'.. an attempt to issue last week, and have Wm. P. Whitehouse, Mrs. Whitehouse, Do. not had time to sift out all the matter If this illustration interests you, drop in and see the original R ob’t T. Whitehouse, Portland. which has gone by. A. M. Kidder, Plymouth, N,H. CeiJer Nile took eight trout within twen­ grind out the news of the week. A. S. W oodworth. B oston. ty minutes while fishing with a fly at Dead J. S. Grandin, Do. River Pond Tuesday night. Two of the Edwin U. Curtis, Do. fish weighed a pound apiece and none The latch-string is always out. Alfred B. Heath. Do. went under a quarter. S. O. Metcalf, Providence. M. B. Metcalf, Orange, N.J. June 5th Mr. A. L. Oakes will take the Wm. Runkle, Do. Snowman party from Brockton, Mass., J. E. W ooster, N. Y. to Camp Saddleback on Dead River Pond. Herbert Myrick and wife, Ssringfield, Mass There are fix in the party and it is their F. F. Fuller, • B oston, second trip to the pond. The fishing at G. F. Eaton, Portland Farmington. Dead River Pond is just getting into its E. G. Gay, Bath prime. J. H. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Sweet, Boston. The publishers of R a n g e l e y L a k e s have ANYTHING May 26. been unable to yisit but a small portion of E. Belding, Springfield, Mass the Rangeley region this week, hence have E. T. Houghton, Do. not had time to solicit but a small amount F. D. Parsons, DO. of advertising or arrange for correspon­ S. D. Sherwood, Do. dents at the different points. Will see you E. T. Slocum, Pittsfield, Mass. later, gentlemen. A. F. Lamb, Providence, R. I. in t i e Printing Line! Ed. Page, Bangor. The Union Sabbath School re-organized V. F. Prentice, W oacester, Mass. May 26, with the following officers for the May 27. year: Supt., Rev. W. H. Small; Ass’ t A. G. Morse, Portland. Supt., Mrs. L. J. Kemp ton; Secretary and Andrew J. Lynch, Lowell, Mass. Treasurer, Ebcn Rowe; Librarian, Lillie Charles F Riordan, Boston. Haines and Cora Hoar. The largest num­ Fred Sanborn, Errol, N. H. J. J. McNulty, Boston. ber of scholars in attendance any Sunday D. E. Barry, Do. the past year, was 154; average, 60. Miss Dr. M. F. Garin, Do. Helen Haines was present every Sunday. E. W . Hamlin, Augusta. F. W. Hamlin, special correspondent of Best Work, Chas. S. Hichhorn. Do. AT the Boston Journal at Augusta, and his W. A. Williams, Portland. friend, Chas. S. Hichhorn, cashier of the W. G. Hoyt, Lynn. C. W . Glidden, First National Bank of Augusta, were in Do. Miss C. T. Crosby, Phillips. in town the first of the week. They came May 28. cros- country on their bicycles to Phillips, J. H. Davis, Portland. taking the train there. Mr. Hichhorn met L O ¥ \ /6S t D. F. Field, Phillips. with quite a serious accident, when only a A. M. Kidder, PL mouth, N. H. short distance out of Augusta. J. L Grandin, B oston. A. S. W oods worth. Do. Secretary Gresliata’s Death. H. F. Beedy. Phillips. J. F. Toothaker. The principal bit of outside news for Do. H. A. Redfield, Hartford the week, is the death of Secretary of H. S. Redfield, Do. State Walter Q. Gresham, at Washing­ F. L. Richardson, New Y07-k. ton, D. C., early Tuesday morning. H. B. Richardson. Do. I. T. Burr, B oston. J. W . Farwell, Do. G. H. L. Abbott. Concord. W . D. Pennell, Lewiston. Stephen Lee, Do. One or two girls wanted to learn the art of O I W . S. Butler, Boston. type,setting. Also boy to learn the trade. !\ A N G E L E Y 1—CAKES. W. E. Butler, Do. J. W . Spaulduur. Do. Apply at Rangeley Lakes Office. W . H. Gay. Portland. 4 RANGELEY LAKES.

Rangeley Lakes* Gur thanks to the Farmington Chroni­ ’TTY! XT YOU AND ME. Nature needs to have her weather ma­ cle for its cordial greeting. Pleasant chinery overhauled. It is sadly out of words like those make the way seem Well, how do you like us? kilter when a week of July weather is Published every Thursday morning, by the brighter for beginners. sandwiched into the first weeks of a cold, This weather is an improvement! windy May. Rangeley Lakes Publishing Company, The New York Bureau of the New Eng­ land Summer Resort Association is lo­ This is only a starter. We hope to im­ With two new soda fountains and two HARRY P. DILL AND ELLIOTT C. DILL, prove with age. ice cream rooms, the people of Livermore cated at 3 Park Place, New York City. Falls should not complain for want of Editors and Proprietors. Here are to be found clerks thoroughly something cool, fo.t the “ stomach’s sake.” posted respecting the summer resorts of The ‘ •broad-guage-via-the-East-shore’ ’ —Express and Advertiser. New England. This bureau is supported idea is fast gaining ground. Granted that they ought not to, but in a SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 Per Year by subscriptions from the railway and prohibition state there are always some The New England Tourist fills a long In Advance. steamboat companies and proprietors of that do, just the same. felt want, and is a typographic beauty hotels. Has North Franklin been repre­ Devoted to the Interests of the Whole as well. sented there ? Piscatorially defined, an optimist is a Rangeley hikes Region. One of our exchanges calls ice cream “ a fisherman who says: “ What splendid luck ‘ ■Already the summer resort business of freezing abpetizer.” It’ s a novel charac­ I’d have had if I’d taken a Hive-pounder;” ADVERTISING Rates Reasonable, and will New England amounts annually to some­ terization. and a pessimist is one who says: “ What be made known on application. thing like twenty-five million dollars, and poor luck I’d have had if I hadn’ t taken yet it is only in its infancy,” says the The R a n g e l e y L a k e s is here for busi­ that five-pounder.” Netv England Tourist. The• R an g e le y ness, likewise for a good time, and more­ Address all communications to L a k es will devote all its energies to di­ over to stay. Rangeley L akes. Rangeley. Maine. OUT Or DOORS. verting as much as possible of this 25-mil­ lion dollar fund into the Rangeley region. The R a n g e l e y L a k e s was only born to­ A local botanist reports finding the blue day but don’t you think it’ s a pretty With the co-operation of all those inter­ fruited honeysuckle, (lonieera coeruleci) ested our object will be accomplished. healthy infant ? growing in great abundance on the cast The RANGELEY LAKES is shore of Oquossoc Lake. It is a very From all quarters have come plsasant The reels begin to hum, handsome shrub about three feet high The Best Advertising Medium! wodrs and best wishes for the success of Now the fishermen have come. and is just now in full blossom. The same “R a n g e l e y L a k e s .” authority also adds that swamp goose­ WHY? berry and skunk currant, two ill-named THE WEEK’S VISITORS. BECAUSE the people like to read it, and do The R a n g e l e y L akes reaches a class of but rather pretty shrubs, abound in the not subscribe on the principle that it ’s the readers who read. Advertisers will appre­ same locality. The flowers of both are only one there is. Mr. Frederick B. Richardson, of Brook­ ciate this fact as the wreeks progress. very pretty. lyn, N. Y., left Sunday after a stay of BECAUSE it is the best that iirst-cias.s mate­ about a week. Pressing'business connected Humming Birds. rial and first-class workmanship can produce. The Bangor Industrial Journal and with the establishment of a new factory Livermore Falls Express and Advertiser There are on our piazza three nests of BECAUSE it fully covers the whole Rangeley in New Jersey, for the manufacture of have our thanks for their kindly advance the humming bird, one with two little region, and reaches out among sportsmen stoves, ranges, heating apparatus, etc., everywhere. notices. ones; they are just out of the nest and are prevented his remaining longer. This is hopping about the flower garden with the If these points do not convince you that it Mr. Richardson’s tenth trip. Henry Ful­ old birds. They are so tame you can get will pay you to have your advertisement in the Wheels are multiplying in Rangeley, but ler guided him as usual and the two caught the real craze has yet to be started by within an arm’s length of them. In a sec­ Rangeley Lakes, we have still other argu­ sixty-six trout while at Loon Lake. ments which will hit your case. See if we some enterprising bike agent. The roads ond nest are two little beauties, so tame haven’t. Speaking of the early run of fish in Loon are good. they will eat honey from a stick when Lake Mr. Fred. B. Richardson, of Brook­ given to them. A third nest is fastened lyn, N. Y., said last week: “ The fish seem There are sixty divorce cases before the to a wire that holds a flower pot; it has R a n g e l e y , M e ., T h ursd ay, M ay 30, 1895. York S. J. Court this term. What are we to bite as soon as the ice leaves the lake two little eggs, and the fourth is on a coming to ?—Lewiston Journal. twig .of a tree, only ten feet from the By Way of Preface. and I think the fishing, though of the best What was one seems to be coming two. at all times, is rather better then than others. S. D il i.. It is customary in starting a paper, as later on for the reason that the fish are Soquel, Cal., May 7. in commencing a novel, to devote the first ' We don’t promise to be an eagle-eyed hungry for a change of fare. The feeding guardian, champion and father confessor few paragraphs to the explanation of why grounds must be excellent in Loon Lake Plea for the Bluebird. you do so. of the People. The American Public is big for the fish are round and plump at all enough to take care of itself. From all the Northern country, as the Simply stated, the R a n g e l e y L a k e s is times while in Rangeley Lakes the first birds came back this spring, observers started for business purposes; to increase fish taken have a ha If starved look. I have reported the bluebird as returning The thanks of the Rangeley region are the business of the Rangeley region and have frequently compared the two and unusually late, and in numbers greatly to build up business for itself. The edi­ have noticed a marked difference.” due Miss C. T. Crosby7, for the boom which decimated. tors see a bright and busy future for she gave this part of the country during Henry Hobart. Esq., of Bridgewater, The cause is revealed by Southern re­ Rangeley. The town’s rapid but substan­ the sportsmen’s exposition in New York. Mass., arrived Tuesday for his annual fish­ ports, where thousands have been found tial growth is ample proof that this predic­ ing. Miss Hobart was with him. Mr. frozen iu the fields and woods. In this tion trill be fulfilled. Year by year this There is one thing which they say about Hobart, in speaking of his first trips to section where the bluebird is the earliest progress has been noted, and the time the Rangeley region which isn’t said of this section, mentions the fact that there comer, arriving before the spring has fair­ seems ripe for this enterprise. ' Rangeley every other summer resort: “ If you come was only a tote road from the foot of the ly opened, this season he is some three has been noted for its first-class fishing; here once you’ll want to come again.” lake to Haines Landing and baggage was weeks behind the robin and the song spar­ for its first-class hotels; but it has lacked taken across on a sled to which a horse row, and carefully gathered notes from all for a first-class newspaper published The Springfield (Mass.) Union wickedly was hitched without pole or shafts. It local observers do not show half a dozen on the spot. This latter is what we pro­ observes that the Belding party, who was a confused mass when it reached its specimens. Not a nest has' been found pose to give you. have been here this week, will return with destination. On one occasion he found and a day’s tramp in haunts where they In selecting R a n g e l e y L a k e s as -the a splendid string of fish, “ regardless of his revolver and a box of cartridges play­ are always breeding at this season does name for our paper, we have taken into cost.” ing hide and seek in the bottom of his not reveal a single bluebird. consideration that until quite recently, The bluebird has other claims on human­ trunk. You will pardon us i f v j speak to these words referred to the whole North ity beside his tender spring warble and you without an introduction, but vve Franklin sporting region. We place that Mr. Willard Nye, Jr., who has been a loving ways. He is strictly insectiverous really wish to make your acquaintance. inclusive meaning on them now, and shall member of the U. S. Fish Commission and furthers the agricultural interests by Wouldn’ t you like to hare us call regularly use our columns in telling others of the from the date of its organization, is a keeping down the insect pest to an extent for a year? beauties and attractions, not of any one most interesting talker. Among the inter­ that can hardly be appreciated by the section but of all the Rangeley Lakes re­ esting incidents related the following was “ If you’d only cut the telegraph wire farmer at large. gion. thought good enough for the first issue of and stop the mails, what a delightful Iu view of ornitliologically established To our newspaper neighbors in the coun­ R a n g e l e y L a k e s : country this would be.” said one of the facts, I keep well within bounds, when I ty, the Phillips Phonograph, the Farming- In 1879 the commissioners were located week’s visitors who longs for a lodge in state that the failure of the crops in Kan­ ton Chronicle and Farmington Independ­ on the Elkhorn river in Nebraska. One some vast wilderness. sas or the forest fires of Michigan are ca­ ent and to the Rumford Falls Times, our day Mr. Nye took a trip up the river and lamities less generally felt by the commu­ nearest neighbor in the other direction, came to a place where the river flowed out Kate Field says “ the coming woman nity7 and not so far reaching as would be we extend initial greetings, confidently over a sort of intervale, making a pond will neither smoke cigarettes nor eat on­ the extinction of a single species of our trusting that our relations with them may about four feet deep. The water was ions.” Now if she had added “ nor wear insetiverous birds and everyone, who never be otherwise than the pleasantest. packed as full of bass as ever one s’aw min­ those horrid bloomers” tiie definition depends on the soil for a living,—and This is about all we have to say to you nows in a stream. They ran in weight would have been idyllic. what one of us does not iu some way ?— in commencing. Our paper speaks for it­ from two to five pounds. When he re­ should unite with the bird lovers of the self, and it is on its merits—and push— turned to camp Mr. Nye told the professor When the fish come not his way the true country in this appeal for sympathy and that the R a n g e le y L a k e s must make its what he had seen and asked him to sportsman curses his luck. The fellow extend aid and protection in every way to way to success. explain it. The professor laughed. “ Well” who isn’ t a true sportsman vents his dis­ the unfortunate bluebird. said he, “ I’m glad to hear from those fish. pleasure in cursing his guide, his tackle W il l S m it h . We congratulate the business and hotel You see four years ago we were shipping and “ the whole blarsted region.” Phillips, Me.. May 20, ’95. men of Rangeley on the liberality with a whole tank car of bass spawn from head­ which they have patronized our advertis­ quarters at Washington to California. We have several slogans for the R an g e- Mr. Richard Olncy, of the Worcester. ing columns. Dollars expended in print­ In crossing the Elkhorn the train left the l e y L a k e s . Here are a few of them for (Mass.) Spy7, the oldest paper in Massa­ er's ink. if judiciously placed, are sure to iron and the tank car was smashed all to a sample: “ Made with the pencil and not chusetts, has been making his headquar­ come trooping back, bringing more with smithereens and every blessed one of those the scissors;” “ Our own stories and our ters at the Rangeley Lake House for a them. The man who sticks to advertising spawn intended for California went into own artist;” “ Latest news at the earliest few days, going to Kenebago and near-by will find that business will stick to him. the river.” date.” Which do you like best? ponds as side excursions. RANGELEY LAKES 5

FROM CAMP AND COTTAGE. Mr. F. H. Wilbur and Joel H. Byron, of Phillips, spent Sunday at Chateauguay. Postmaster Parker, of Phillips, is build­ Messrs. Fox and Richardson had poor ing a cottage on Long Pond, opposite the luck at Sandy River Ponds, only three fish With the Fishermen. inlet. It is to be 1(5x20 and will be called in three days. “ Camp Winona.” Mr. A. A. Sargent, of Haverhill, Mass., Harry Haskell of Wakefield, Mass., is one arrived Friday for his thirty-third season of the builders of C. E. Parker’s camp at at Camp Haverhill on Mooselookmeguntic. At the Foot of Oqnossoc. Ellis as guide, they took 10 fish, the larg­ Long Pond. His son, Mr. Harry Sargent, is too busy to est weighing 5 lbs. make his usual spring trip but is expected M o u n t a in V iew H ouse, May 29. A l­ W. B. Smith and Ernest Haley were at after. though this house’s best season comes in Mr. Walter B. Farme^’, of Arlington Wild Rose Cottage, Sandy River Ponds, July and August, there is a pleasant gath­ Heights, has the longest record—over 100 Saturday. They took fifteen trout, the A partridge sitting on a nest of ten eggs ering already here. The new spring is since May 10th. Ed. Lowell has been largest weighing 1% lbs. is one of the interesting sights just now furnishing a splendid supply of water. guiding him. Mr. Farmer is a true sports­ visible from a window at Anglewood, Mr. man, and fishes for the sport of it. Out of Hon. Joel Wilbur and Daniel White- N. P. Noble’s cottage. In her care for her Mr. A. F. Lamb, of Providence, R. I., his many fish, he has only saved now and house, Esq., have had the best of luck at eggs the bird seems to have lost all fear of treasurer of the Monliassett Manufactur­ then a plump one for the table, the rest Mr. Wilbur’s camp. Thursday, eleven were man and merely ruffles her feathers and ing Company, Putnam, Ct., is here for his being liberated. taken, the largest weighing 6 lbs. utters a warning cluck when the cottagers sixth season. His son accompanies him Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hooper, of Philadel­ Lewis P. Rowe and Harry Baclielder come too near. for the second time. Freeman Tibbetts phia, are at the Mooselookmeguntic House have been fishing on Sandy River Ponds. has been guiding them. for a three weeks’ stay. On May 18th, in Two hours and a half fishing caught twen­ PHILLIPS LOCALS. E. C. S. Cook, of Hartford, Ct., an old-one-half day’s fishing, Mr. Hooper took 5 ty-two, average, nearly half a pound. timer, is once more at this house. fish, the largest weighing 4)^ lbs. Silas Henry True has become qu ite an expert Dunham, guide. Anglewood, N. P. Noble’ s very pretty- Walter Bulkley, of Bristol, Ct., is much typewriter. pleased with his 4% pound catch. Phil- A..JL Berry and J. W. Tabor, of Port­ cottage on Rangeley Lake, was formally brick Gile, guide. land, are having quite a run of luck. Ber­ opened last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. No­ Rev. Mr. Ranney has been in Bath ble and daughter, Marian, and Mr. and attending a clergyman’s meeting. A. F. Pratt, of the Pratt & Whitney ry went out before breakfast one morning Mrs. J. B. Noble were out. They returned Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Ct., is here the .first of the week, bringing back a 3)4 Rev. W. W. Ranney went to New Vine- on his first trip. With Geo. D. Huntoon, lb. trout as an appetizer. Monday but in a short time will be there yard Monday on his wheel. as guide, he took a 2^ pounder the first On May 27tli the Tilton party from Flo­ for the season. Mrs. Martha Sawyer is to be pleasantly day. ral Park, New York, will come to the During F. H. Wilbur’s recent trip to located in her new home this week. Mooselookmeguntic House, on their first Chateauguay the leader he was using had G. H. Mitchell, wife and daughter, of Ezra McKeen is in charge of the fence trip to the Rangeleys. on two hooks. He fastened a medium Bristol, Ct., are here for their fifth year. building crew along the Sandy River Rail­ sized trout upon both of them one in the Mr. Mitchell is treasurer of the Welch road. Redington Notes. mouth the other on the side back near the Manufacturing Co. Wm. H. McKeen is at work in Strong- Leon Emerson’s wife is teaching school tail. He played for a big one though. Some splendid fish were taken Thursday making extensive changes in Mr. Fogg’ s here. by guests from the Mountain View House. Raymond Toothaker and Mrs. Tooth­ house. Dana Aldrich and Fred Harnden, of H. A. Redfield, of Hartford, Ct., with Al. aker, of Auburn, reached Lake Grove Cot­ Dell Sawyer, formerly of Phillips, is Phillips, took well filled baskets of fish Sprague as guide, safely landed a'7 pound tage on Rangeley Lake, Saturday morn­ working at the Rangeley Lake House as trout. H. S. Redfield also of Hartford, from the pond last week. ing. It is not always that the big fish get porter. away as our readers will learn by watch­ with Charlie Hamden as guide, took a 4 The section men of the P. & R. discov­ Archie McKeen has bought a new recti­ ing Mr. Toothaker’s catches as R a n g e l e y pounder. A. F. Lamb, of Providence, R. ered a fire in the woods Thursday. The linear lens for his camera at a cost of over L a k e s reports them hereafter. I. , with Freeman Tibbetts as guide, caughtmill sent a crew to put it out. thirty dollars. eight trout weighing 17 pounds. Three of They have very nice water at Redington, Camp Holman, at Sandy River Ponds, them weighed 3 pounds each and the rest Mr. W. B. Hoyt, the Phillips marble taken from springs back of the settlement. has been filled for the last week with a worker, has just set stones on the Brown averaged better than 1%. F. A. Pratt, of Most of the houses are supplied with it. merry Farmington party, consisting of Hartford, with George D. Huntoon as lot in the new cemetery. It is a lively place about the mill during the proprietor, Hon. J. C. Holman, George guide, captured a 3 pounder. G. H. working hours, as would be natural at a W. Wheeler, Esq., E. E. Richards, Esq. J. H. Byron, Esq., lias repainted his Mitchell and W. Bulkley, of Forestville, mill cutting over forty thousand per day. county attorney, Dr. E. C. Merrill and Dr. house and has added a pretty bay window. Ct. with Philbrick Gile guide, took 8 fish John Nichols, Nelson Gould acting as H. H. Mining did the carpenter work. weighing 12 pounds. Southern New Eng­ It is surprising what quantities of trout guide and cookee, and Charles Hinkley, Ernest L. Haley is at work on an order land had her fill of trout Thursday. are taken from the pond at Redington and there seems to be more each time one vis­ cook. for 15,000 T perches, for placing mounted its it. Being on the land of the Reding­ Last week a party of Phillips people birds on. He has just completed seven Ou the Big Lake. ton Lumber Company permission for fish­ visited Sandy River Ponds and S. G. Ha­ creamery tanks. H ain es L a n d in g , May, 29.—The fishing ing has to be obtained from Mr. Eaton, ley’s cottage. One of the party was soon The local “ Shriners,” who were too here was never better than it has been the paymaster of the company, which is out for fish and quickly got a strike, it busy to go to Lewiston Thursday, have since the ice went out this spring. Every­ readily granted to any but pot hunters. was a big one of course, but he had no been consoling each other since as com­ one is happy. The good fishing holds the There is sometimes a streak of dry humor landing net. Over the way were some of panions in misery. fishermen and makes ’em happy and their the Camp Holman visitors and to them a in Mr. Eaton’s tone as he cautions a party A t the Golden Cross meeting last Sat­ satisfaction makes Landlord Wliorff happy scout was sent up for a landing net. They to whom he gives the asked for consent to urday evening, the third degree was con­ Since May 10th a remarkable number of had none, (nor had they any use for them) fish, that they do not fish the pond dry. ferred on seven candidates. The attend­ splendid catches have been made. Nearly so our fisherman wras left to his own re­ ance was very large. A banquet followed. all of the best fish of the season have been Camp Bemis. sources. He played his fish for a long hooked within sight of the Mooselookme­ The eommandery now numbers sixty-seven. W. S. Ilixon of Lynn, took a 6 lb trout time, not daring to pull him in for fear he guntic House, some of them but a few rods The proprietor of Blue Mountain ken­ a week ago Saturday, and a 5>£ lb. one, -would break away. away. Here are some of the best:— Finally the struggle ceased, the fight nels missed one of his blooded dogs Sun­ Tuesday. Joseph Lamb, guide. Miss Grace E. Hobart, daughter of Mr. was over and the game was carefully reeled day morning. As he was not to be found Willis W. George and wife took thirteen Henry Hobart, of East Bridgewater, in. No net was used in landing the three a team was taken, but half a day’s search trout weighing from % to 134 lbs. the same Mass., has made a record which like Arte- quarters of a pound fish! If pou call at the failed to bring any trace of the canine. afternoon. Mr. George landed a 531 lb. mas Ward’s is “ equalled by none and ex­ Phillips post office and ask for your mail, Returning in the afternoon it occurred to trout Tuesday, Will Grant, guide. celled by few.” Her first afternoon on the be careful and not make a mistake and ask the dejected party that the night before he Fishing is reported excellent at Bemis. lake, in fact her first trout fishing of any for landing nets. had shut the dog in another place. kind, she captured a 6 pounder, 3 234", 1, 1. all in two hours’ fishing. Since then The Lake Point Cottage. The following was picked up near Camp- Our village butcher recently sold his Miss Hobart and her father have taken Probably not half a dozen frequenters of Holman; the owner may have it by prov­ farm in Avon and moved into the village. many more good fish and, thorough the Rangeley Lakes, who pass the above ing property and paying charges: A short time ago, after driving about sportsman as he is, Mr. Hobart admits pleasant spot, know the origin, or see in it town till near noon, he turned his team in “ Friday morning just at nine, the direction of his former home, drove that “ my daughter, sir, has beaten me all more than the plain name of a pretty cot­ Our yonng D octor dressed so fine, into the yard and was taking out his out and out.” In one afternoon they tage. The right way to use it is as shown Started out to try the fishing from a log, took 14 fish divided as follows: Miss H., above, and the initials are the same as But the latter rolled around, horse when he discovered the new propri­ 10; Mr. H., 4. Nate Ellis is guiding them. those of its original builder, T. L. P. or While the former quickly found, etor watching him. It wasn’t to have Theodore L. Page, Esq., formerly so well In the water he was splashing like a frog. been told but it got out somehow. Geo. W. Wheeler, of Farmington, took a known to all who ever visited his famous handsome pair near the Mooselookmegun- Down went the Doctor till the bottom he The annual election of officers of the Elmwood at Phillips. The prettily con­ tic House, Thursday. In the forenoon he had found. Young People’s Union was held last Sun­ ceived idea is to be credited to Mrs. Page. And although he didn’t swear, caught a 4>£ pound salmon and in the day, and the following officers were elect­ Y et he wildly pulled his hair. ed: Edward R. Toothaker, president; afternoon a 6 pound trout. He went home And it took a day to dry him all around.” satisfied. F. C. Porter guided him. The new water bottles for the tables at Ida Lubin, vice president; Mrs. Margie the Rangeley Lake House have “ Rangeley Dr. E. Cope Merrill, who was with the Skofield, secretary and treasurer; Wm. S. Messrs. W. B. Patten and A. F. Lom­ Mineral Water” etched upon them. Holman party, met with a slight mishap Skofield. Lilly Gould, Lucia Waite, look­ bard, of Lowell, Mass., in one day’s fish­ on the first day in camp. Against the ad­ out committee; Mr. Andrew Sawyer, A. Putnam and wife, of Lowell, Mass., ing at the Mooselookmeguntic House, took vice of County Attorney Richards, he Miss Alberta Matthews, Miss Cora have been at the Rangeley Lake House for 12 trout weighing 24 lbs., the largest, 4)4 stepped on an uncertain log and being un­ Wheeler, prayer meeting committee; Miss a few days. Mr. P. is an old timer in this lbs. Sir Knight, E. A. Russell, guided this able to cope with its revolutions, he sud­ C. T. Crosby, Miss Etta Taylor, Mrs. region. He had good luck. party. denly dropped in. It was rather cruel in Florence Sawyer, visiting committee; Miss Messrs. Geo. Churchill and Geo. Keith, The Irene, which has been running with one of the party to strike up that song Annie Timberlake, Mrs. Tyler, Miss Josie of Brockton, Mass., are making their first only two blades on her propeller for some from Olivette “ Now is the time for disap­ Toothaker, social committee; Miss Sarah trip this way, and are more than pleased time, is to have a new casting as soon as pearing.” His bump of caution has large­ Toothaker, Miss Etta Taylor, Mrs. Mar­ with the fishing. On the 17th, with Geo. the machinists can furnish the same. ly developed since then. gie Skofield, missionary committee. (5 -i-Yih JGELEY LAKES

Local Paragraphs. The Week’s Wedding. R a n g e l e y L a k e - , takes much pleasure in announcing in its first issue a social- It’s hot event which took place at the residence of Mr. James Ross on Saturday evening last, And then it’s cold, the occasion being that of the marriage of A T DEAD RIVER ROND, And then the two combine, his daughter, Aggie, to Roderick Brackett And then ’ tis neither one nor 'tother. of Dallas Plantation. The ceremony was A. L,. OAKES, Proprietor, Wish Nature’d be more chary of her De­ performed by John Haley, Esq., the grand­ cember weather! father of the bride. The presents were nu­ ^A_OOD FLY FISHING and Hunting. Brook Fishing. Pure Spring Water. Trail to the Vernie Hoar has gone to the Birches to merous, showing the friendship in this vi­ summit of Saddleback Mountain, 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. For Circulars and work. cinity for the happy couple. information, address, -A-. 1 v. O A K K S , JVXts. R angeley'L a k e s extends its congratu­ David Haley has bought the George lations and best wishes for a bright and Pillsbury farm. happy future. Judge Whitehouse, wife and son were at The folio Yving presents were given: ^ ^TOaAIvT and Irci ri^joorta 1 i o n ! Marsquamosy, over Sunday. y doz. silver knives and forks, Mr. and I M E E T A L L THROUGH TRAIN'S AT RANGEL.EY. Henry H. Dill is at The Lake Point Cot­ Mrs. J. F. Ross; silver spoon, Annie Ross; tage, guiding for the Tuttle party. y doz. silver spoons, Mrs. MaryE. Haley; Sportsmen desiring to be carried with their baggage from the station to any given point, will find my team in readiness at all regular trains for their accommodation. Patronage Electric lights are being talked. K a x g e - butter knife, sugar shell and waiter, Ber­ solicited, and the best attention given to passengers and baggage. l e y L a k e s wishes for them as soon as nard Ellis: two wedding cakes, Mr. and O . ID. MIlNIT'eTAET'Y', K e m g e le y , Me-. they are are ready. Mrs. H. W. Loomis; water pitcher, molas­ ses pitcher, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Ross, About twenty people from Phillips went pitcher, Abe Ross; y2 doz. sauce dishes, to Farmington to attend the sixth annual two linen towels, six napkins, Mrs. Sarah commencement concert of the Farmington Ross; y doz. napkins, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron State Normal School. Soule; cream pitcher, Mr. and Mrs. Herb­ We want a boy to learn the printer’s ert Ross; "pepper and salt shake, Fern trade and would also like to have one or Soule; oil paintings, Mr. and Mrs. James two young ladies learn the art of type Brackett; oil painting, Mr. and Mrs. Tim­ setting. othy Tibbetts; doz. sauce dishes, Mrs. Tax Collector Esty has an advertisement John Haley. that may be of interest to those who wish to pay their taxes but have been waiting W hat’s the IVlatter With This? for an invitation. On Mooselookmeguntic, Tuesday, Mrs. A. George Pillsbury has bought the farm A. Sargent of Haverhill, Mass., took a 7 formerly owned by Ermon Toothaker. Mr. lb. trout and at the same time Mr. Sar­ Toothaker has bought the house on Main gent took two at once which together street formerly owned by Daniel Hoar. weighed 10 lbs. Sylvader Hinkley and Joe It is welcome the coming and speed the Wilbur were guides. parting guest, at Senator Frye’s camp. Seventeen pounds of fish at once, ought Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is to convince people that the Rangeley fishing hasn’t gone to the demnition bow­ expected soon and General Sewell, of Bath, wows. has just returned to the city. F. B. Green, the Boothbay Harbor opti­ The only Direct and All Rail Route to the cian, is in town on his semi-annual trip to Rangeley Lakes and Dead River Region. look after the eyes of Rangeley. Mr. S T A N D S I-p C > T < Green has been coming here for the past Monday, May 20, 1805. fifteen years and is almost a resident of the place, as far as acquaintance goes. EAST. No. 1. F g’t. No. 3. Pass. A. M. P. M. There seems to be a scarcity of rents for 9 A. M. Boston, de. \ ^ Ulv 8.30 “ business purposes. It is understood that 1.15 “ outside parties are looking for a location. Philllips ...... de. 8.10 3.35 2 Ether Smith is seriously thinking of set­ Madrid...... 8.35 5.53 ting his barber chair under the shade of Reed’s Mill...... 8.55 6.02 Sanders’ M ill...... 9.15 6.15 some shady tree, when the sun comes out ( ar 10.00 again. Redingt’n Mills. •< /d e 10.05 6.45 Miss C. T. Crosby, just back from the Dead River...... 10.48 4 7.15* sportsmen’s exposition, is again flitting Rangeley...... ar. 11.10 2 7.30 WKST. No. 4. Pass. No. 2. F g’t . about the Rangeleys, fly-rod in hand. A. M. P. M. ••Had a delightful time and the whole R angeley...... de. 10.30 1.30 1 affair was a huge success;” is the way she Dead River...... 10.48 1 1.50 1 ar 11.17 2.25 sums up the exposition. During her week — ?; Redingt’n Mills. in New York, Miss Crosby was the recip­ THIS HALF-COLUMN 1 de 11.18 3.15 Sanders’ Mill...... 11.40 3.45 ient of over *500 tvorth of presents. IS RESERVED u Reed's Mill...... 11.50 4.00 M adrid...... 11.57 4.10 iniment Phillips...... ar. 12.15 Mr. B. F. Judd, of Bristol, Conn., a FOR 4.35 3 guest of Mountain View House, on May NEXT WEEK’S 1.15 24th, between four and six p. m., within P ortland...... ar. 5.45 B oston.. .E. Div.. ar. one-half mile of the house took three trout GUIDE ANNOUNCEMENT. Of which, more wili be said 9.25 * S f a g e connections for Eustts. weighing as follows: 6B>s., 3% lbs., 2 lbs. WATCH FOR IT 1 in these columns later. This is Mr. Judd’s first trip to the Range- Rj A. B. Gilman, F. E. Timbeklake. leys, although an enthusiastic fisherman President. G. P. & T. A. with a good deal of experience in the art. D. W . Dav is. Supt. These are the largest brook trout he has 11 A. MERKOW, M’fr , Rangeley, Me. ever taken. He is very favorably im­ pressed with the place. Rangeley Lake Steamboats. Mr. Z. T. Haines, ivell known in Range- ley, his birthplace, writing in the Belfast TIME-TABLE T F I WL -■F T ^ 131^££. Journal says: The school war in Naples, For of ’95. Me., is not a new instance here of conflict [For Saturday and Sunday time, see foot note], of authority in the matter of teachers. I Sandy River Railroad, recall a case at the Rangeley Lakes about A. M. P. M. 55 years ago, where Amanda Allen, the 1V1AY 2 0 , 1895. Rangeley...... Lv. 7.00 2.80 handsome mother of Lillian Nordica, born Train X. Train 3. Train 5. Rangeley Outlet, ...... L v. 9.00 4.30 Norton, occupied a school, room jointly NORTH. with another teacher, and held the fort to A. M. Ik M. P. M. Note.—The only exceptions to the above are on Saturdays when boats do not leave the end, the oppsition minority withdraw­ Farmington. lv. 9.45 12.20 4.35 ing and occupying a building attached to Strong, lv. 10.30 1.40 5.10 Rangeley Outlet until 5.00 P. M. and on Sun­ Phillips, the Rangeley mansion. Two district ar. 11.00 2.10 5.35 days when they leave Rangeley village at 7.30 A. M. agents had been chosen and each of them Train 2. Train 4. Train 0. S T E A M E R S supposed he was authorized to engage a SOUTH. A. M. P. M. P. M. may be chartered by private parties or for ex­ teacher. One of the agents, who had been MARRIED. cursions, and trips will be made at any time of a business partner of the father of Miss Phillips, lv. 7.45 9.45 1.15 day or night, the charges for the same at all Strong, Allen, afterward ‘ -Camp Meeting John,” lv. 8.10 10.30 1.40 times lieing reasonable. . . Rangeley, May 25, by John Haley, Esq.., at Farmington, ar 8.45 11.10 2.15 didn’t admire the man, and perhaps al­ the home of the bride’s parents, Roderick lowed bimself to be prejudiced against the LUTHER NILE, : : Proprietor. Brackett, of Dallas P!„ and Miss Aggie Ross of WESTON LEWIS, F. N. BEAL, daughter. K A N G hC I , ICY NT EC. Rangeley. President. Sup’t. I lyi RANGELEY LAKES 7

Judge Whitehouse returned Monday Local Paragraphs. Rediugtoti Notes. Henry Fuller guided himself into the vi­ Key. Mr. Ranney preached here last cinity of big fish Tuesday and a five The R a n g e l e y L a k e s ’ big press started Sunday. pound trout was the result. up as smoothly as a veteran. Mr. Davis and wife of Jonesport, are TwoBeauties! Another cold wave has reached town visiting their son, Henry. George Keith, of Brockton, Mass., and the shivers are very prevalent. Several sportsmen are staying in town caught a 6% lb. trout on the Big Lake trying the rod and line in Redington Pond, Saturday, Josh Eilis, guide. The phonograph entertainment drew a The Rangeley Lake House Record. small house both here and in Phillips. Jack Toothaker, foreman on the Reding­ Mr. Pinney of New York is close to the Our mail reaches town a little earlier ton farm, is very busy having already put head of the record procession with that 7 since the new schedule .went into effect . in four acres of potatoes and several acres lb. trout he took near Senator Frye’ s camp, The road from Phillips to Rangeley is in of oats. He is a good man for the posi­ while a guest at Billy Soule’s. Lester very fine condition and a very pleasant tion. Soule was his guide. drive as well. Mrs. Lucy Parlin is doing house work for our school teacher, Mrs. Emerson. R. N. Elwell and Dr. Witherell, of Exe­ Sheriff Esty, Saturday morning, seized, ter, N. H., with W. H. Harrison to pilot at the expres s office, a jug full of the for­ There is great interest taken this spring them fished the stream from Redington to bidden liquid. in the culture of flowers, many novelties Saunders Mill, Friday and secured a hand­ Ed. Greenwood saw' from the P. & Ii. are seen and many fanciful flower beds are some string of 105 trout. train Friday, two deer cross the track in made, those of E. C. Lufkin, R. Ross and front of the train. -Supt. Lambert being very fine. Hon. Clias. R. Whitten, of Augusta, The three conspirators, Ed. Greenwood, Leon Emerson and George Proctor are State Bank Examiner, staid over Sun­ Charlie Barrett and John Russell, have grading their lots. Painting and fixing day with F. E. Timberlake, Esq., at Mar- been at work on that nautical secret this up seem to be the order of the day. squamosy. He returns .much pleased, hav­ week. It’s a success, they say. The Lumber Co. are driving business as ing taken a 3% lb. trout. One of the busy men of the town is Dana usual, the average daily cut being 45,000 Henry Hobart, Esq., and daughter, Miss Hinkley, his truck, baggage and passenger ft. long lumber, 34,000 laths and 8,000 shin­ Graqe E. Hobart, of East Bridgewater, transfer teams are running all the time, gles and clapboards. Mass., left for their home, Tuesday, after from early in the morning till late at Mrs. J. S. Goldsmith is doing quite a a most successful trip and one of the very night. business in her dress making and remnant best fishing records of the season. Mrs. C. T. Richardson, of Indian Rock, shop. One 6 3-4 lb„ Salmon taken by has moved to her summer home on Pleas­ Henry Davis and Ed. Mitchell have made The Haskell party from Boston, consist­ ant street. Her daughter, Mrs. Fessen­ Frederick Jones of ing of W. H. Young, H. A. Priest. W. F. great improvements in their lots by grad, den and Master Howard of Newton, ing. New York; Chapman, H. F. Rockwell, E. B. Haskell, Mass., are expected on Tuesday. and C. H. Andrews are at Allerton Lodge — AND— S. L. Crosby, the Bangor taxidermist on Lake Mooselookmeguntic for a week or ten days. is here in person this year, just from the 1 3 * Emmery JPratt, One 6 1-4 lb. Trout taken by Sportsmen’s Exposition in New York. Monday morning the train was well He is busy putting in order the rooms oc­ W . F. Sturtevant of Attorney at t a w , filled with returning sportsmen, and the cupied by his firm last year. Springfield, Mass. express car was more than full of boxes of E. P. Merrill, the bell boy at the Range- Phillips, : : Maine. fish The fishing was never better than it ley Lake House is something of an embryo has been this season, as the columns ofithe newspaper correspondent as well. He is With the Fisher men. R a n g e l e y L a k e s will show. se'nding some very readable sporting news to the Press in Portland, his native town. [Continued from page 5.] W. F. Sturtevant, of Springfield, Mass., F 3 . o . a guest at the Rangeley Lake House, with Members of the different orders and so­ Martin Fuller, guide, took one six, one cieties will find the R a n g e l e y L a k e s de­ Office Hours. The Difference! two and one-half pound trout, and several partment, “ Among the Orders” very con­ smaller ones, along with a nice salmon, venient for reference. The secretaries of 6.45 A. M. to 12 M. 12.30 P. M. to 6 P. M. A T h r e n o d y . while fishing on Oquossoc (Rangeley) societies will aid us in keeping it thor­ 6.30 P. M. to 8.30 P. M. A bite! A.bite! Lake, Thursday. * oughly up to date. The line grows tight; Judge Morrison predicts a brilliant fu­ Sunday. I feel a sudden thrill o f bliss; Mr. Richardson, of Phillips, who is stay­ A mighty swish ture for Rangeley, it is this: “ Within a 10 to 11 A. M. 5 to 6 P. M. ing at S. G. Haley’s camp on Sandy Riv­ Proclaims a fish few years it will be the largest town in er Pond, saw a deer feeding in the water, At least as long as this: the county.” When that prediction comes Mails Depart. Saturday. He gently paddled his boat true we will have to organize a new coun­ Railway Mails, Daily, 10.30 A. M. within twenty feet of him and they watched [Puck, June 10, 1891]. ty with Rangeley as the shire town. Down the Lake, Daily, 7 A. M. each other for some time. The deer showed For Kennehago Lake, Monday, Wednesday. Since J. F. Oakes purchased the Loomis Alas! Alas! no signs of fear and it was only when a and Friday, 7.50 A. M. It comes to pass team drove past in the road that he left store there has been a change or two in For Greenvale, Daily, on arrival of train. (As oft it has with yon, I wis). the water. business locations. Mr. S. Goldburg, the I pull him out; jeweller, is now in Mr. Oakes’ old store, MaUs Arrive. He is a trout From all the Rangeley regions come the w'hile Mr. E. A. Royal, the barber, and As long, perhaps, as this: Railway Mails, Daily, 7.30 P. M. cheering reports of increased quantities of Mr. Oakes now- occupy the Loomis store. fish being taken. No matter what the cry Up the Lake, Daily, 10 A. M. All old soldiers, in and about Rangeley, From Kennehago Lake, Tuesday, Thursday, || [Detroit Free Press]. about game extermination, it does not ap­ are particularly requested to make a note and Saturday, 4 P. M. ply to fish—they were never so plentiful as A PANEGYRY. of this item. Maj. Melcher, who delivers From Greenvale, Daily, 9 P. M. at the present season. The good work Get out! Get out! the address on Memorial Day at Phillips, done by the Protective Association is Mails CLOSE 15 Minutes Before A Rangeley trout! is to give his lecture, “ Battle of Five surely counting. Sportsmen who have D eparture. At such a little tiling would hiss. Forks” , in the evening. This is said to Bear it in mind, been enticed elsewhere by the stories of be a most interesting lecture and no sol­ ‘IS. I. JUSTiltlCTC, P». M. You'll always find the failure of trout in the Rangeley Lakes dier should miss it. A Rangeley trout like this: region that have been circulated, should at once pack their grip and rod case and This is our first attempt at making hie to this section as quickly as possible chalk plates. We do not call attention to and—all will be forgiven. them as works of art, but we can truth­ fully assert that they have never previ­ Dr. C. L. Toothaker of Phillips, tells ously done service in illustrating anything wonderful tales of the fishing at Quimby else. They are free hand work and neces-’ Made and Pond in the early days. “ The best luck I sarily rushed. With practice we are posi­ ever had,” says the doctor, “ was one after­ tive our work in this line will compare Repaired* Frederick Skinner, of Boston, a guest at noon in the days before special laws were favorably with any now done. There are the Rangeley Lake House, took a hand­ thought of. In company with’two others many difficulties to be overcome in first some 5 lb. trout Friday. I went to Quimby Pond and commenced starting a paper; we are ahead on some fishing shortly after noon. They didn’ t and others are yet to be surmounted. We Henry, Edwin, Solomon and Herbert have very good luck but I pulled them in Coiiins caught 1G2 trout in Saddleback have no apologies to make. We did our The Host Material Used, as fast as I could throw my hook in. We Pond, the first of the week. best under the circumstances. fished that afternoon and a few hours the The total catch of Henry Hobart and next day and then packed our fish and Our New Fire Officials. daughter while at the Mooselookmegun- drove down to Camp Henry (now the The meeting of Rangeley Village Cor­ I will be prepared to make and repair rods tie. was: % fish, 55 being taken by Mr. Ho­ Mountain View). I asked Ben Whitte- poration Saturday, May 25. from the 15th of June to the 15th of Septem­ bart and 41 by his daughter. more, who was then running the camp, to Geo. M. Esty elected Moderator. The ber. Sportsmen who leave their rods with The Foster party, from New York, Bos­ put my fish in the ice house. As he reached following were elected officers of the Fire me for repairs when they return from their ton and Syracuse, eight in all, had a fine into the wagon for them he asked if I ha*d Department for the ensuing year: Chief fishing trips can get them on their return the next season. time at The Birches for several days. many and I replied I had just a few He Engineer, J. A. Russell; First Asst. G. M. Their catches were numerous and the fol­ gave a tug at the bag they were in, and Esty; Second Asst. W. S. Marble; Third SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. lowing were among the best taken: one said incredulously ‘Arn’ t all fish, are they?’ Asst., E. J. Herrick;Clerk, H. A. Furbish; trout 45^ 15s , two salmon, S}1, 3lbs. Ru­ I told him to open the bag, and one look Treas., L. A. Smith. Instructed the Asses­ Hi. T. H O AR , fus Porter, Will Haines, Elmer Snowman convinced him. That catch weighed sors to adjust the compensation of tax and Frank Pbilbrick, guides. many a pound over a hundred.” collector. E. J. Herrick, Clerk. IYIAIT sI St„ KAINGBIvB' 8 RANGELEY LAKES

AMONG THE ORDERS. Messrs. John Matthews, of Phillips, and Guides are in great demand; The carpenters are nearly done on the Archie Perham, of Farmington, drove in, Miss Eliza Esty is at the Birches for the addition to the Rangeley Lake House. Society Notes, Rangeley. Sunday, going as far as Haines Landing. season. The spring house on the hill Avill be com ­ Wednasday. May, 29, Regular weekly meeting Rev. W. H. Small and his son, Willie, Dr. Currier’s stable is nearing comple­ pleted this AA-eek and then Rangeley Min­ Rangeley Lodge No. 2001. O. Good Tem­ have been in Lewiston this week to con­ tion. eral Water Avill begin to make a name for plars. Meet in Church Vestry. sult a specialist in regard to his son’s The P. & R. train is crowded every itself. Friday, June?,Regular meeting Rangeley Com- deafness. night. President Gilman of the P. & R. Avas at mandery No. 408 Order of the Golden Chas. Staples, Jr., of Portland, steam­ the Rangeley Lake House recently, on his Cross. Meet in Church Vestry. boat inspector for inland waters reached Luther Nile, Esq., was in Farmington Wednesday, June 6, Regular meeting W. C. T. way to Pleasant Island Camps. Mrs. Rangeley Wednesday evening, on his an­ last week. U. at the Library. Gilman accompanied him. nual tour of inspection. Isaac Raymond has moved his family to Society Notes, Phillips. Cal Pennock is back on a 60 days’ fur­ Greenvale. There are more lady frequenters thus far Monday, June 10, Regular meeting Mt. Abram lough and Rangeley seems more like its A street is being laid out and built to in the season than ever before, shoAving Lodge, No. 65, A. O. U. W . Hall in Bates’ old self. Cal counts on securing an exten­ Mr. Marble’s new cottage. that the “ gentle art” is becoming a favor­ Block. sion of time which will allow him to stay Mrs. Ephraim Hinkley is rapidly gain­ ite one with the gentle sex. ■Wednesday, June 5, Stated Communicaion, all summer. ing from her recent illness. The big press was started Thursday on Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 67, F. & A. M., at Masonic Hall. Work, M. M. Deck Quimby reports bears more numer­ Miss Grace Hinkley is at The Lake the cover “ outsides” and Avorked splendid­ Thursday, May 30, Decoration Day. G. A.R. ous this spring than he has known them Point Cottage for the summer. ly. Two strong armed Rangeley boys fur­ Address at Uniou Church by H. S. Melch* * for forty years. Within a few weeks he Crazy Higgins was in town this week. nished the motive power and kept at it as er, Esq., at 2.30 P. M. Decorative Serv­ has found tracks of no less than three He told Frank Russell’s fortune. regularly as steam engines. ices at 10.30 A. M. bears not over a mile from his house at Miss Ella Hinkley, of Phillips, is stop­ F. W. Miller, the very obliging station Thursday, June 6, Regular meeting Cushman Quimby Pond. agent, has an extension of the telegraph Post, No. 87 G. A . R. at Grange Hall at ping with her uncle, Eben Hinkley. The new road Landlord Marble has line in his house. This may not be gener­ 7.30 P. M. Contractor Haley has the cottage he is built leading to his spring house on the hill, ally knoAvn by the sportsmen, but it ena­ 'Thursday June 6, Regular meeting W oman’s building for Landlord Marble well under is destined to be very popular through the bles Mr. Miller to send a message at night Relief Corps at Grange Hall 6.30 P. M. way. Saturday, June 1, Regular meeting North summer. Such a lovely view- as can be with very little trouble. Mr. R. A. Merrow has taken rent in Franklin Grange No. 186, Patrons of Hus­ seen will not be left “ to waste its sweet­ We shall each week publish the full reg­ Mrs. Alexis Blodgett’s house, on Main bandry, 1.30 P. M. at Grange Hall. ness on the desert air.” ister list from the Rangeley Lake House. Saturday, June 1, Regular meeting Phillips street. Mr. S. N Locklen, of Temple, a former All sportsmen coming to Rangeley stay Commandery, No. 402, Order of the Gold­ Dan. Whitehouse, of Augusta, has been en Cross. Bates Hall. resident of Rangeley, has been staying for over here on their way in and out, hence a few weeks writh his brother, Mr. Elijah stopping with Hon. Joel Wilbur at Camp friends in the city can, by consulting the Locklen. Mr. Locklen has lived at Temple Chateauguay. R a n g e l e y L a k e s , keep posted on the ar­ Local Paragraphs. for ten years but he likes to get back for a Miss Hussey, of Guilford, the milliner rival, stay and departure of their friends little fishing every season. employed by Mrs. E. P McCard, will remain —and, beside all this, find the sporting Sing a song o f springtime Dr. H. B. Palmer, of Phillips, was in in town but a few weeks longer. news served up in a bright, attractive Fishing down in Maine, town Thursday looking over some of the The continued cold weather makes it form. Crowds of jolly sportsmen Rangeley horse flesh. Dr. Palmer’s broth­ very unpleasant fishing on the lake, but The Sandy River Creamery Co., of Phil­ Coming back again. er and Isaiah Pompily, of Auburn, will fine catches are reported just the same. lips, is very desirous of arranging with the When the season's over make a trip up this w-ay soon with a view C. N. Blanchard, who is studying in farmers of Rangeley and vicinity to have And they homeward hie. to purchasing available speeders. Hon. J. C. Holman’s law office in Farm­ cream sent to their factory. About Phil­ • Luck was never better,” Mrs. E. P. McCard is much pleased with ington, was in town last week. lips the farmers, who have been sending, Everyone will cry. are highly pleased Avtih the remuneration the crayon portrait of her father, the late Fred’k Skinner, of Boston, arrived last received and the female element of the At A. T. Toothaker, which has just been fin­ week. Mr. Skinner is following up the household is more than pleased as it re­ Last ished up by the firm with which Mr. G. A. Rangeleys as faithfully as did his late lieves them of a A-ast amount of hard la­ We are Proctor has a purchase card arrange­ father. bor and worry. Those who enter it exten­ Ready for ment. The likeness is very good. Rev. Mr. Blake has been making his old sively Avould about as soon dispose of one An introduction. An embryo sportsman came to town friends a visit preparatory to moving to of the family as to sell one of their choice ‘•Allow' us, dear friends, bringing his rod and flies but left his lines his new pastorate in South Stratford, Jerseys. Under the improA-ed arrange­ To present, for your perusal, and reel at home which gave a bad sur-( .Vermont. ment of stalls, the coavs are kept as clean Our brand new R a n g e l e y L a k e s .” prise. He bought a copy of R a n g e le y Only words of praise are heard from as the family cats. Thursday was a great fish day! L a k e s and saw John Russell’s ad. then patrons of the steamer line on Rangeley quickly filled the missing links and now Senator Frye reached Rangeley Monday W. S. Marble was in Farmington Friday. Lake for the youthful, but popular captain the 20th, on his way to his rustic camp at his heart is glad. of the Irene. J. W. Brackett, of the Phonograph, was the Narrows. R a n g e le y L a k e s was Rev. Dr. Albert Heath, now of St. Jolins- in town this week. Tuesday evening Rev. Mr. Blake caught accorded a short interview and found the bury, Vt., well known in Rangeley and a in the City cove two salmon at one cast senator fully as enthusiastic over his fa­ Dr. Palmer, of Phillips, made a visit to brother of Mr. G. W. Heath of this place; weighing 21-2 lbs. Wednesday he made vorite sport as ever. He has just re­ Rangeley Thursday. officiated at the funeral of the late Col. another good catch. turned from the wilds of New BrunsAvick, Mr. C. W. Barrett is adding a bay win­ Franklin Fairbanks, one of Vermont’s Mr. Phin. Richardson is back after a where he has been capturing Canadian dow' to his residence on Main street. best known citizens. The St. Johnsbu.iv thirteen weeks’ seige at the eye and ear salmon. He reports them very plenty-, but Willard Chandler, of Phillips, was in papers speak very highly of Dr. Heath’s infirmary in Portland. His.eye is much not running in size aboA-e ten pounds. In town Wednesday, on his way to Ken'ne- work in that place. improved by the treatment he has received. that proA-ince the protection of fish is an bago. Not the least interesting part of the The King’ s Daughters met Tuesday even­ unknown quantity, but the game Mays are Maine exhibit at the Sportmen’s Exposi­ Joseph Tibbetts has moved his family ing with Miss Georgia Esty. They meet very stringent. He had the pleasure of tion in New York was the Rangeley Min­ into his residence on Main street, for the next Tuesday- evening Avith Mrs. H. A. seeing tAvo large moose roaming through eral Water supplied by Mr: Marble. The summer. Furbish. the forests. The senator is looking ex­ visitors to the exposition drank it all ceedi ugly well,' evidently the a.-ranglings The W. C. T. U. library now numbers Samuel Hano, Esq., has put in fine re­ save one half a barrel which a physician of a lemocratic congress have given him over 500 volumes, and new shelves have be­ pair, so far as shingles, clapboards and who had been to Rangeley and knew of little cause for worry, and lie returns to come necessary. paint can go, the Abner T. Toothaker the water hastened to secure for his pa­ his first love, tlle Rangel eys, v-ith all his The W. C. T. U. is preparing library farm buildings, recently bought by him. tients. old t me A'igor, as the wary trout will cards, which will keep patrons posted as One hundred and five thousand shingles Quimby Pond is the Mecca of all fisher­ learn if they beeome too Jamiliar Avith the to the hours of opening and closing. were used. men who haven’t had good luck elsewhere. senat or’s fly. Mrs. W. H. Small and little son, Bertie, When the trout in the lake refuse to bite, Henry Tibbetts is laying the sills for a Mi- Willard Nye, Jr., of NeAv Bedford. have been staying with Mrs. C. F. Quimby the sportsmen with one voice exclaim: ncAv shop 26x60, two stories, near his pres­ Mass,, avIio has been stay ng at die Range- during Mr. Small’s absence in Lewiston. “ Let u sgo to Quimby;” and they rise up ent location. He is to occupy one half the ley Lake House is a iis lermaii of wide andj^o. Along in the evening they come lower part for blacksmith work and the A few nights ago three deer were seen experience and unimpeachable A-eracity (all back loaded with strings which almost other is to be devotod to wood working, on the shore of Dead River Pond near fishermen are, you knotv). He has tried to be carried on by his son Florin. C. W. Camp Saddleback, A. L. Oakes’ summer touch the 25-lb limit. The supply of trout the fishing on both sides of the continent, at this little sheet of water seems inesti­ Barrett is to have the upper part for his resort. having been Avith the Albatross during mable and is probably due to the absence boat manufacturing business. Mrs. Lucy Thompson is at Maneskoo- the inA-estigation of ’85, and lining gone of enemies of trout and to the splendid took. cooking for the Dicksons. The regu­ The following are teaching in town at to Washington and Oregon in ’02. “ Great­ feeding grounds. lar held help will not be along for a couple the present time: Miss Grace Libby, of est fishing, I eA-er saw, was out in Wash­ of weeks. “ I caught a fish that weighed a pound Pittsfield, Grammar, Miss Lelia Hunne- ington,” says he in his crisp, epigram­ and a quarter,” said a visiting sportsman well, of Kingfield, Primary, Miss Johns­ Elliott Russell has a very beautifully- matic Avay. “ Why I Avent out one after­ the other day. “ He was smaller than I ton, of Lisbon Falls, Quimby division, colored meerschaum, of- which he is very noon Avithout a guide and struck a spot wanted, but before throwing him back I Miss Bessie Smith, of Chesterville, at proud. The one owned by Martin Fuller where half a dozen big salmon came up for White sclioolhouse, Miss Minnie Grant, of is a close second. thought I’d weigh him. Up to the time I the fly at every cast. No trouble in get­ hung him on the balance he was thrashing Rangeley, in Wilbur division. C. E. Beedv, of Lewiston, Swift Bros.’ ting all you want there. Not much." round like an eel, but while he was on the Mr. W. S. Nevens, of the Boston Her­ Then he gossipped about Rangeley and representative, was in the village Thurs­ scales, that fish never moved a fin. Seemed ald staff and also publisher of the Boston added, "but though I’ve tried the fishing day. Mr. Beedy is building up quite a like he knew that the less commotion he & Maine Courier and Mr. S. J. Foster, of trade up this way. all over the country I still come back to made the less he’d pull the balance down the firm of C. H. & J. Price, wholesale Rangeley.” Since he came he has taken, The Union Sunday School is preparing and the more likely he’d be to get away.” druggists, both of Salem, Mass., made a beside many smaller ones, big trout in a very fine concert for Children’s Sunday. “ Yes,” broke in one of his listeners, “ that very pleasant call on R a n g e l e y L a k e s , each of the lakes he has-tried. In Kenne- Mrs. L. J. Kempton, Mrs. Eben Rowe and fish must be a cousin to the one that camo- Tuesday, Aveek. It tvas their first visit to bago his largest Aveiglied 3)^ lbs, in Range- Mr. W. H. Small have the matter in up through the ice to ask what changes this section of the state and both Avere ley, 4>4 , in Mooselookmeguntic 5% lbs. charge. had been made in the game laws.” much pleased with its beauties. His guide Avas Billy Porter.